“I think I've got a peculiar disease. I call it the curse of history, and it has to do with the fugitive absence/presence of both personal and collective memory. At first I thought it was a kind of personal illness, just related to time, private time, time that passes in one's life. So I decided to forget and throw myself into the future.”
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Gilles Peress
Gilles Peress, born on December 29, 1946, is a renowned photographer known for his profound documentation of conflict and human suffering. more
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